"Should robots make life and death decisions? Teacher and humanitarian, Mishra McKenzie, doesn't think so. But the international community is torn as the window to outlaw killer robots closes. Coaxed by her activist friends to help them expose a susp...

"Letitia Trentham is noteworthy for three reasons. One, she’s extremely wealthy. Two, she can distinguish truth from lies. Three, she’s refused every man who’s ever proposed to her. Until Letty receives a proposal she can’t turn down. Icarus Reid bar...

"Jess, a 29-year-old Londoner with a Kate Beckett fringe and a tendency for dramatics, gets taken on a surprise trip by her long-term boyfriend, Pete, to attend her best friend's last minute wedding in South Africa. Jess imagines sun, sand, wine and ...

"When special-needs teacher Paige takes up the position of Governess for three young children in the Queensland outback, she has no idea just how much and how quickly she would come to love the dusty, dry country, and the family who desperately need her....

"Levi's War follows on from The Keeper of Secrets and Rachel's Legacy, tracing the story of the eldest Horowitz son, Levi, who is smuggled out of Berlin to London the day after the Kristallnacht in 1938, where he makes the momentous decision to be pa...

"Hell's Unveiling is the sequel to Marsha's Deal. Hell is raging and the devil and his minions are out to wage war on Planet Earth and on Marsha in particular. One of Marsha's foster children, Daniel, is framed for a crime he did not commit and is sent...

"Ginny and Shona are inseparable. they can’t remember a time before they knew each other. Tanya is new - she’s just moved to Waiheke Island because of her mother’s job. The old friendship is threatened by the incomer’s arrival. But more unsettling is...

"Sir Barnaby Ware made a mistake two and a half years ago. A massive mistake. The sort of mistake that can never be atoned for. He knows himself to be irredeemable, but the captivating and unconventional Miss Merryweather is determined to prove him wrong…...

"Lucas Kemp’s twin sister died last year. He’s put aside his mourning clothes, but not his heartache. If Lucas ever needed a friend, it’s now - and who should walk in his door but Lieutenant Thomas Matlock... Lucas and Tom are more than just best fri...

"A novel about food, whanau, and mental illness. Valerie reads George Eliot to get to sleep - just to take her mind off worries over her patients, her children, their father and the next family dinner. Elena is so obsessed with health, traditional food,...

"Glasgow, 1969. In the grip of the worst winter for years, the city is brought to its knees by a killer whose name fills the streets with fear: the Quaker. He takes his next victim - the third woman from the same nightclub - and dumps her in the street...

"In the British army of 1872, corrupt young officers play games of a different kind. Their favourite is to rape young society women in their homes. The rogues make a competition out of it. The more girls the regiment savages, the more different ways they...

"Another Hollywood night, another job for electric-detective-turned-robotic-hitman Raymond Electromatic. The target is a tall man in a black hat, and while Ray completes his mission successfully, he makes a startling discovery - one he soon forgets when...

"Kiwis had been anxiously watching the growing casualty and POW lists for loved ones in Europe and the Middle East for nearly two years. Pearl Harbour and the astoundingly rapid Japanese advance throughout Asia and the North Pacific increased local concern,...

After the trouble starts and the soldiers arrive on Matilda's island, there comes a time when all the white people have left. Only Mr Watts remains, and he wears a red nose and pulls his wife around on a trolley; the kids call him Popeye behind his back....

"When your planet's sun is dying, what can you do? Find a new home. That's what the Ryxins did throughout the galaxy, and 150 of them secretly arrived on Earth in 1905. Once they'd changed into Human form they began to infiltrate Earth's population. By...

"When a Ryxin woman's body is found washed up on a beach, a prison inmate believes her friend has been murdered. She asks PI Curtis McCoy and his assistant Janux, to investigate. When they interview several ex-prisoners a complex web of intrigue unfolds....

"Curtis McCoy, now a fully fledged private investigator, is called on to solve a murder. But when it turns out the murdered woman is just one on a list to be terminated, things start to get serious. What's more - there's a bounty on each woman's head...

"Isolated in the Yukon Territory of Canada with memories of a different life, Agnes Nielsen struggles with loyalties and tragedy as she attempts to find meaning as rancher Jake's wife. Meanwhile, the other members of the Nielsen clan live their lives...

"Tom Grace, a Brisbane surgeon, attempts to find his kidnapped lover, Kaye Reynolds, a journalist, in Afghanistan. Instead, he is abducted by an arms dealer, Ahmed Bakir, and flown to Marseille as Bakir's prisoner. Tom had no idea Kaye was working for...

"Filled with adventure and mysticism, Lahara uses her unique gift of interpreting dreams to uncover the reality of true oneness within the world. When Lahara’s best friend Emma dies in mysterious circumstances, Lahara’s life takes a transformational ...

"It is a 1926 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, a perfection of craftsmanship and engineering; a birthday gift to Isabel Kane from her husband, Hugo. Isabel appears to have it all. She is beautiful, with a loving husband who is successful in business, children,...

"Words put together, stitched and sewn into stories, to warm or delight or surprise"--Publisher's description.

"Waking up in hospital, all memory erased like a computer restored to factory settings, Amalia enters a bizarre world where nothing is normal, everything is experienced as if for the first time. Her perplexed husband, staunch father, and mother who w...

"Having brokered a fragile peace with his demons at last, ex-Afghan War pilot Mitch Stuart isn't in the market for redemption. But when he steps outside his comfort zone to help a stranger in a country pub, he inadvertently opens the door to the ghosts...

A high-school sex scandal jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power. The sudden and total publicity seems to turn every act into a performance and every platform into a stage. But when the local drama school decides...

"The world has always been pro males. Asian women fare it worst. Women were sold as slaves, women were made to marry men they don't know, some of these matches were made even when the girls were babies. Girls were molested, raped, impregnated and had...

"A blend of science fiction and stylish mystery noir featuring a robot detective: the stand alone sequel to Made to Kill. Another golden morning in a seedy town and a new memory tape for intrepid PI-turned-hitman--and last robot left in working order--...

"William Deans, an extraordinarily passionate, often overlooked, early New Zealand pioneer, was a prolific letter writer. This most unusual work of Historical Creative Nonfiction is reconstructed from the letters he wrote. Told in the first person, his...

"The small picturesque hamlet of Mellester in Devonshire, England, is home to herdsman, Godwin Read and his son, Odo. When the aging knight, Sir William Ainsley, Lord of Mellester Manor goes on a hunt for wild boar, the inexplicable happens, and Godwin...

"When Laura McKenzie returned to Kawau Island with her friend Cass to live in her missing grandmother's cottage, it was a dream come true. The dream turned into a nightmare when she discovered that her grandmother, Nan, had not drowned but mysterious...

"Under the Hippocratic Oath, a doctor swears to remember that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug. Doctor Perry assures his elderly patients at the Rose Haven Retirement Home that he can offer wa...

"The murder of her fiance forced computer security expert Samira Desta into a world of isolation. A prisoner of grief and yet the only key to catching the killer her fiance died trying to bring to justice, she must now emerge into a reality that threatens...

"Albert Black, known as the 'jukebox killer', was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral panic about teenagers, and he was to hang less than...

"Toby Robinson has grown up with his uncle's stories and wants to join the navy. His uncle finds him a post as cabin boy on His Majesty's Bark Endeavour, under Captain James Cook, in the hope that it will put his nephew off a life at sea. Assisting the...

"On tiny, isolated Rotoroa Island in the Hauraki Gulf is a treatment facility for alcoholic men. It's here, at the Salvation Army-run home, that three characters at very different points in their lives will find themselves gathered, each for reasons of...

"The sequel to 'Rena' tells of her granddaughter Wikitoria's journey to marry Chief Aringi of the Whanganui tribe known for his brutality. Wikitoria's escape and survival depend on her knowledge of herbal remedies and bush craft until she can be...

"He's lost his wife, his job, and his mana. So what now? A PI? He really couldn't get used to it. Traipsing around after unfaithful wives and little old ladies' lost dogs? Was this the future for Carlos Wallace? And what of the beautiful matakite? Wasn't...

"A fast-paced thriller where four people find that following their desires leads to unintended consequences. An ordinary married couple and their two lovers fall foul of Chinese Triads and Mafia hitmen as they each seek their own future path regardless...

"At the age of four Alexander St. Clare was stolen by gypsies and sold to a chimney sweep. At the age of five he was reunited with his father. His history is no secret, everyone in the ton knows of his miraculous rescue. But when Alexander finds his...

"Eleanor Wrotham has sworn off overbearing men, but she needs a man's help - and the man who steps forward is as domineering as he is dangerous: the notorious Mordecai Black. The illegitimate son of an earl, Mordecai is infamous for his skill with women....

"The streets of south Auckland are a tough beat, and Dan Crowley’s detective squad is under-resourced and overworked. Violent crime is riding a surging wave and the cops seem helpless to stop it. With a brutal gang of gun-wielding thugs robbing cash vans,...

"Tracey Hansen loses the love of her life tragically and is overcome with grief. She buries herself in her country cottage, rejecting the comfort of friends and family. The arrival of spring is the catalyst for Tracey to move on with her life, and sh...

August 1987: Against the backdrop of the nuclear ships stand-off with America, the rich and powerful gather in Auckland for a lavish election-night party. Before the night is out, a seventeen-year-old girl will be murdered and several lives utterly changed....

"To silence utterers of magic, to expel imps from the nostrils, the wizard's harvest table lists a set of runes as ancient as the secretive mountain kingdom of Lual. They are the kind of runes that heal, summon, banish, possess.But their power has had...

"Art needs a sense of lack to bring about its own effects; where there is no feeling of need to make up a shortfall, there will be no work. Alright I said, I'll try... This is how Emily Stuart opens the intricately involved account of a classic love...

Harry Gill, a moderately successful writer of historical fiction, has been awarded the annual Watercress-Armstrong Fellowship-a 'living memorial' to the poet, Margaret Rose Hurndell. He arrives in the French Riviera town of Menton, where Hurndell once...

"On 14th February, 1945, the Allies fire-bombed Dresden, killing tens of thousands and starting a political row and propaganda war that lasted years. James Dalton leads the Pathfinder group that pinpoints the target with flares and ensures that maxim...

"Tracing the story of the eldest Horowitz son, Levi, who is smuggled out of Berlin to London the day after the Kristallnacht in 1938, where he makes the momentous decision to be parachuted back behind enemy lines and fight as a Partisan, culminating in...

"An Eastern European crime syndicate has appeared on the radar of the British authorities. Known as the Seventh Wave they have arrived at the heart of the most important financial centre in the world. The group carry out one last raid. What they leave...

"“Find Me!” Those are the words on the note crumpled in Laney Donohue’s disabled sister’s hand. All Laney knows is that the young nurse who wrote them was taken by a man, and no one stopped him. Laney owes this young woman. She cared for her sister when...

"Now the cold war is over, why are the intelligence services of Britain, the United States and Israel so interested in locating and possibly 'eliminating' an elderly Russian scientist? Because he's one of the world's leading experts in biological warfare...

"Jessica Pollard has moved to Turangi to be near her son Reuben who is in prison there. While working at a trout-fishing lodge on the Tongariro River, Jessica slips into a relationship with a handsome, charming Maori lawyer. When the body of his troubled...

"Conrad Murrihy's mother is dying and she has one final wish: to see her eldest son Francis who has not contacted home in two years. In a race to find him and return home to his mother, Conrad travels far from his native Nova Scotia, Canada and through...

Strongly autobiographical, it vividly conveys the intensely felt worlds of the adolescent - love, poetry and England - and the enthralling but sometimes painful experience of growing up female; and its picture of family life in early-twentieth-centur...

Seventeen and pregnant, Gina has some tough decisions to make - should she marry the father of her baby? The former bad boy Bevan, on home detention for robbery, swears he has mended his ways and will care for Gina and their child. But Gina's own chi...

Montreal Perec is a cartographer with unusual powers of perception. He lives as a recluse in the town of Te Kauhanga, sheltered deep in the Central North Island of New Zealand. Thirty years ago, he travelled from overseas and settled into his lightho...

"Tanja Morgenstein, daughter of a wealthy industrialist and a geochemist, is dead from exposure to Titan's lethal, chilled atmosphere. Guerline Scarfe must determine why. This novella blends hard-SF extrapolation with elements of contemporary crime fiction,...

"Pachamam and the Jaguar Man deals with numerous human rights issues and abuses in the context of the fifty-one-year-old Colombian Civil War, a peace treaty for which was signed in 2016. This treaty was subject to a nationwide plebiscite held in late...

"Britain, in 1942, should have been a safe place for a French resistance fighter visiting his handlers in the Security Intelligence Service. Sergeant Ian Gifford of the RAF, along with other pilots of the Special Squadron at Tempsford, risk their lives...

"Daniel Matheson is a young man who loathes himself and his dark secrets. After his horrendous experiences as a captive, he visits New Zealand and chances upon the Brynleith property. In his exhausted state, the idyllic place offers a welcome respite....

"Cynthia is twenty-one, bored and desperately waiting for something big to happen when her bootcamp instructor, the striking Anahera, suggests they run away together. With stolen money and a dog in tow they buy 'Baby', an old boat docked in the Bay of...

The Prince's PleasurePrince Luka of Dacia is a man with a lot to lose if his secret leaks out too early. He trusts nothing and no one, least of all his unexpected desire for Alexa Mytton. She might be beautiful, but she's dangerous - and there's no time...

"Peter Collie is adrift in the wake of his wife's death. His attempts to understand the turn his life has taken lead him back to the past, to dismaying events on an Amsterdam houseboat in the seventies, returning to New Zealand and meeting Moira, an ...

Private investigator, hit man, and the world's last robot Raymond Electromatic is hired by a familiar-looking woman to search for a missing movie star in a glittering world of fame, fortune, and secrecy with ties to a sinister plot.

"The spirit wants her name back. The con artist wants her painting back. And Oliver just wants things back to normal. Good luck. Oliver Atkinson's life is busy. Between trying to write a book, children, and housework he doesn't have time for the spirit...

"Maggie never wanted to go into the family business, but when her parents die suddenly and her husband has just abandoned her and their two small children, what choice does she have? With the support of her best friend Elka and her mentor Betty, she had...

Devenport Naval Base, New Zealand, 1962: With her husband away at sea, Sophie Flynn's life is becoming considerably complicated. She has two children to look after, the captain's wife to minister to, a wayward sister to keep an eye on, and an elderly...

With an Edwardian twist on The Tempest, and surprising, earthy, and magical qualities, this irresistible novel is set on the remote, divided Scottish island of Kissack and Skilling, one half of which looks historically and geographically towards Cath...

"Maria has found a sanctuary in a rented house, overlooking a small Spanish village by the sea. She is coming to terms with losing the love of her life. But her solitude and the places that have become special to her are about to be encroached upon by...

"1914. Samuel, Jimmy and Cass struggle to adjust after the Great Strike. For those men and their loved ones, change demands sacrifice and loss - for even love comes with its price. But greater challenges beyond their imagining are about to engulf the...

"Many New Zealand men and women served in World War II. There were some however who refused to fight, believing it wasn't right to kill fellow human beings. They were called conscientious objectors and were treated harshly by the authorities and by the...

"Paige McAllister needs to do something drastic. Her boyfriend cant even commit to living in the same country, her promised promotion is dead on arrival and the simultaneous loss of her brother and her dream of being a concert violinist has kept her ...

"Based on the story of a little white house that did indeed exist in rural New Zealand, this story weaves reality with fantasy, telling the tale of all who lived there, from the perspective of the house itself. As the house becomes conscious and self-aware,...

"When Marsha is diagnosed with a rare disease that turns her body to bone when damaged, she becomes depressed and commits suicide at a Swiss euthanasia clinic. After her spirit goes to hell, she meets the Devil himself. After live footage is beamed down...

"Dylan Harper is a young, up and coming detective, with a point to prove. But when he and his mentor Detective Joe Gardella are summoned to the office of the Chief of Police and given an assignment that is outside their jurisdiction they sense that s...

"Mr Glossop is on his regular run delivering wages to the hospitals scattered across New Zealand's Canterbury plains. When his car breaks down, he is forced to stay the night at Mount Gold Hospital, twenty miles from the nearest town, where soldiers ...

'"Former soldier Bill Secombe's world falls to pieces after the love of his life dies, but he rebuilds a successful business and remarries. But soon his new wife shuffles him off to a retirement home, so she can take over the life he has created. Bullied...

"Wairaka Point is a gripping narrative based around actual events. The subjects and settings are diverse: New Zealand, legal investigation, rabies, fathers, US Marines, heroic women, Maori, ambiguity, possum trapping, advertising, Zimbabwe, families,...

"Here, between the realms of the Sky Father and Earth Mother, hellhounds race, ghosts drift and the taniwha stalks. Home fires drive them back, sparking stories and poems that traverse seconds, eons, and parsecs. Tales of gatekeepers, cloak wearers, ...

"Instead of getting some ice cream and wine to spend the night alone, Jeaunette Cameron manages to spill her treats on one Tomas West, only the hottest British star in Hollywood. It should have been a chance meeting, a fluke of crossed paths, but as Tomas...

"Dan Calder is back. Back in his native England once again to help his best friend and ex-partner Nick Hetherington. Nick's daughter has been arrested in connection with the death of a Nottingham prostitute. Back to face his darkest moment as old acq...

"Frank Hardy, late of Her Majesty's 57th Regiment of Foot - the Die Hards searches for two missing Scandinavian boys, assisted by the cousin of one of the boys, Mette Larsen. Meanwhile, someone is killing ex-Die Hards, and the Armed Constabulary, dressed...

"From award-winning author Charlotte Grimshaw, this is a beautifully evocative, sensual portrayal of a woman's search for freedom and love. When her daughter vanishes during a heatwave in Europe, writer Frances Sinclair embarks on a hunt that takes her...

"Kat has never wanted to live a small life. She's an adventurer, a food writer who travels the world visiting far-flung places and eating unusual things. Now she is about to embark on her biggest adventure yet - a relationship. She has fallen in love...

"When brilliant physicist, Jess Rodriguez, designs the most advanced spacecraft the Earth has ever seen, she becomes a target for an unscrupulous industrialist, whose sole intent is to destroy her. But is that the worst of Jess's problems? Could it be...

"It is 1952 and strange events are taking place in Loam, a small settlement in rural Canterbury, New Zealand. Ralph Randal, his wife Irena and their three daughters have immigrated to the area from England, but as they settle in, the curiosity of Clover,...

A gripping detective novel set in the remote New Zealand West Coast. George Todman is a recluse, drinking his way to oblivion in the remote West Coast bush. His life, though, is transformed when the striking flower-child Rainbow starts turning up on the...

"This short story is told by a young American girl, who is all too knowing about her own world, but ignorant about the Kiwi strangers she meets. When Ruthie's father needs a drink, he takes his young daughter with him. She sits in the bar, with her p...

"When asked which was her daughter, Alyssum's mother always used to say, 'the ugly one'. Alyssum has since made a life for herself, away from her old home. But her mother is now in hospital, suffering from dementia. Can Alyssum reach through the pain...

"A tense short story about a cop caught out while planting a listening device"--Publisher information.

"A hilarious short story about a woman who decides to buy New Zealand. Stuck in the dry desert of Single Tree Gully, Australia, in 1840, Mrs C Wentworth dreams of a place deluged with rain. An island to own, and rain. The pigeon post brings word from...

"Love and passion - and their absence, are explored in this insighful, tragi-comic short story about an illicit affair. The narrator's married friend and his married lover, the new wife of her ex-husband, none of them has much to do with her, until they...

"It's not every day you receive an email at work from someone claiming to be 'the' Charles Darwin. But when David Leon emails back, little does he suspect that before long he would be heading to Ecuador, or indeed that he would be mugged by a man wielding...

"Penny's great-grandmother, a passionate suffragette and temperance advocate, was equally torn between demanding daughters and a dependent mother. When Penny is given her great-grandmother's letters she is almost at the end of her tether. Will the words...

A superb collection of short stories that celebrate the power of the written word.Giving an innovative take on the many forms of reading that bombard us in our everyday lives - from e- to junk-mail, gardening to cookbooks, tourist guides to romance novels...

A delicately layered, humorous novel, deliciously written, ranging over time and place. In the aftermath of Barnaby Rivers' death, complictions arise for three beautiful women: Bella, Ruth and wicked old Jocasta. Now nothing can go on in the old way....